Perched Owl in Forest, Vintage Naive Oil on Canvas Painting primitive wooden knife tray produced by Mann

produced by Mann

I'm not sure his age

ethereal in between space -- between periods

I'm not sure if 3-dimensional objects can actually qualify as trompe 'loeil

Perched Owl in Forest, Vintage Naive Oil on Canvas Painting primitive wooden knife tray produced by MannThe colors on this folky painting are rather electric, making it feel a bit like a vision from another world and imparting this owl with something of a surreal feel or perhaps better to say amplifying it, as owls are already rather miraculous and mystical sorts of creatures! At the same time, the really gives a sense of the owl's feathers as a form of camouflage, making it feel very much as one with the swirl of nature all around it. If I had young